El diluvio (Tlaa:wetsilis). Una narración en náhuatl de la Huasteca Veracruzana

This narrative is about the Great Flood and the creation of man and is told in the Nahuatl language of Tzocohuite in the municipality of Ixhuatlán de Madero, Veracruz. The myth begins with two actions carried out by the first inhabitants, a man and a woman, actions disapproved of by God, who punishes them. He sends his emissary, the rabbit, to tell the man to build an ark to save the animals and thus eliminates humans from the face of the Earth. After the Great Flood there are other events involving animals including the vulture, the dove and the hummingbird. Finally, man is punished with work and the rabbit retires to the moon, rewarded for having completed God’s orders. The Nahuatl text is presented together with a Spanish translation and interlinear morphological glosses.